Real Reason Brock Lesnar Squashed John Cena At WWE SummerSlam 2014

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The real reason behind Brock Lesnar’s shock defeat of John Cena in the main event of  WWE SummerSlam 2014 has been revealed.

In the main event of WWE SummerSlam in 2014, Brock Lesnar defeated John Cena to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

The match would see Cena squashed by Lesnar who hit sixteen suplexes and two F-5s on the champion (which can be seen below this news story).

Looking back in the match, John Cena revealed the thinking behind it to Sam Roberts on NotSam Wrestling, saying:

“Brock was taken from OVW and pushed into being champion immediately. I was given an opportunity at the beginning, and then became enhancement talent. And even when I reidentified myself as a hip-hop artist or a rapper, I was an enhancement talent. So I had like a two year understudy of, ‘This is your job, this is the story’.

“Arn Anderson, I remember, ‘It’s just not your night, kid. The story is for this’. So I have great equity in like, my piece is to make ‘this’ interesting.”

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Lesnar was one of a handful of future WWE stars who were all part of the OVW Class of 2022 that included Randy Orton, Batista and John Cena.

Cena would go on to describe Lesnar’s suggestion for the SummerSlam match, stating:

“Brock is one of the most giving performers when it’s his time, and he will make anyone look great. But I remember Brock being like, ‘Hey, I had dinner with Steve Austin last night and we came up with this idea where I just start suplexing you and don’t stop, and then beat you.

“I said, ‘Yeah’. He said, ‘What do you mean?’. I was like, ‘Well, we both collectively agreed that you just defeat the streak. We ruin that if we have a 50/50 match’.

“‘It’s not my night, kid’. Arn Anderson in the back of my head. I hope he understands the influence he had on my wisdom of this.”

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He would go on to compare their match to the Undertaker’s streak, adding:

“It’s not my night. How do you showcase the enormity of that win? How do we not waste the Undertaker’s streak? It’s not just Brock winning a match, it’s all those matches that (Undertaker) had to lead up to losing. If I go out and have a 50/50 match and (Lesnar) just sneaks over, we wasted all that.

“But if you take that unbelievable feat, with another unbelievable feat, now we have passed the energy. And that is how you make someone. And then that someone can make others. And that’s how the business works. You have to be able to work together.”

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Cena would conclude by looking at perspective, something that he touched upon when discussing his frosty relationship with The Rock going into WrestleMania XXVIII, saying:

“People oftentimes in life, this is not just business-wise, they’re just… we gotta see life through our own lens and we gotta… self-preservation is a lot of what we do. But, you can survive and thrive by also being generous and being giving, and working with others.”

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In the interview, Cena would also share the honest criticism that he gave to Austin Theory that would feed into their match at WrestleMania 39.

 

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